1.1 and 1.2 Mesopotamia Review

The two major rivers in Mesopotamia were:

• The Nile and the Euphrates

• The Tigris and the Euphrates

• The Persian and the Tigris

• The Amazon and the Nile

Mesopotamia today is located mostly in the modern-day country of:

• Afghanistian

• Iran

• Iraq

• Syria

True or false: Mesopotamia was naturally an ideal place for agriculture.

• True

• False

Bringing water to dry lands is also known as

• agriculture

• domestication

• irrigation

• technology

True or false: the rivers in Mesopotamia were destructive and flooded often.

• True

• False

One example of technology Mesopotamian farmers developed was:

• the ox-driven plow

• the sickle

• the thresher

• the wagon

A city and its surrounding lands and settlements is known as a:

• kingdom

• city

• city-state

• empire

When did Sumer (Mesopotamia's first civilization) arise?

• 2500 BCE

• 3000 BCE

• 3500 CE

• 9000 BCE

What did Sumerians use to protect their city-states?

• Canons

• Large armies

• Thick, protective walls that stretched around the city-state.

• Nothing - that's why warfare was so common.